Joshua Sobol

Yehoshua Sobol (Hebrew יהושע סובול, born August 24, 1939 in Tel Mond ) is an Israeli playwright and writer.

4.1 The Polydrama

5.1 Hebrew ( selection)
5.2 translations

Life

Yehoshua Sobol is the son of Eastern European immigrants. He initially worked in the Israeli socialist youth movement Hashomer Hatzair, and lived from 1957 to 1965 in a kibbutz. He studied literature and history at the Oranim College in Israel, then 1965 to 1969 philosophy at the Sorbonne in Paris and design analysis at the École Nationale d' Informatique. As a playwright Sobol came in 1971 with "The Days to Come " ( Coming days) at the theater in Haifa in appearance, a piece about the age. At the Haifa Municipal Theatre Sobol between 1984 and 1988, the artistic director. 1988, came to the premiere of his play " The Jerusalem Syndrome" to violent clashes and protests all over Israel, whereupon Sobol resigned as artistic director of the theater, and from then on only devoted to writing. For a time he lived in London and Paris. Sobol's first novel "Silence " came out in 2001, his second novel, "Whiskey 's Fine " was released in 2005. Yehoshua Sobol is married to the stage and costume designer Edna Sobol, with whom he has two children, his son Yali Sobol is a rock singer.

International career

Sobol's international career as a playwright began in 1983 with "The Soul of a Jew " ( " Weininger's Night " ), a play about the Jewish philosopher, suicides and misogynist Otto Weininger. The first performance at the theater in Haifa in October 1982 was invited to the opening of the Edinburgh Festival in 1983 and there awarded the Critics' Prize. Peter Zadek brought the piece in 1986 to the Hamburg Schauspielhaus, a Viennese version came in 1988, directed by Paulus Manker at the Viennese popular theater out and was also filmed.

A worldwide success in 1984 was Sobol's piece "Ghetto " which Peter Zadek staged at the Berlin Volksbühne. The piece deals with the fate of the Jews in the ghetto of Vilnius during the German occupation in World War II, but by the confrontation between the " left ," the socialist "Bund" belonging intellectuals Hermann Kruk and the " right " chairman of the Jewish Council in the ghetto Vilna Jacob Gens, who was close to the group to Vladimir Jabotinsky, describes indirectly interpreted as a parable of the Israeli policy of his to-date. The piece was chosen by the theater today to get the best item and the best performance of the year. The German Performance, directed by Zadek as a musical, the singer Esther Ofarim helped to make a comeback and made the actor Ulrich Tukur (as SS officer Kittel ) to stardom. Even the Israeli clarinetist Giora Feidman was first known for his roles in the Zadek production to a wider audience in Germany. "Ghetto " has been translated into more than 20 languages , performed in over 25 countries and won many awards. With the pieces, "Adam " (1989) and " Underground" (1991 ), it forms the ghetto trilogy. "Ghetto " was filmed in 2006: Ghetto.

1996 created Sobol together with Paulus Manker the Polydrama " Alma - Show Biz to end," an interactive theatrical journey through the lives of the artists muse Alma Mahler -Werfel, in which viewers walk up close through the scenes of her life. The show became a cult piece and traveled in 18 years in over 450 performances Vienna, Venice, Lisbon, Los Angeles, Semmering, Berlin, Jerusalem and Prague, 1998, she was made into a movie.

With " iWitness " Sobol themed 2003, the history of the conscientious objector Franz Jägerstätter in the Third Reich and drew parallels to young IDF soldiers who refuse to serve in the Occupied Territories - Israel in an extremely virulent topic. The first performance at the Cameri Theatre Tel Aviv (directed by Paulus Manker ) made the actor Itay Tiran to stardom.

Works

Plays

Novels and stories

Screenplays

T'en fais pas! (TV)
Christmas 1972 ( TV processing )
La veille of vingt ( TV processing )
The last worker ( TV processing )
Freud 's last Dream (Film )
Zemlinsky (Film )
Ghetto (Film )

Theater forms

Sobol realized a number of theater projects, their special space solutions open up new forms of theatrical experience:

The Polydrama

Yehoshua Sobol about the Polydrama:

Bibliography

Hebrew ( selection)

2005 Whiskey 's Fine, novel, published by Or, Am, Tel Aviv
2002 The Masked Ball, a play, published by Or, Am, Tel Aviv
2000 Silence, novel, published by The New Library, Tel Aviv
1999 Alma, a play, published by Or, Am, Tel Aviv
1996 Village, a play, published by Or, Am, Tel Aviv
1991 Solo, a play, published by Or, Am, Tel Aviv
1990 Underground, a play, published by Or, Am, Tel Aviv
1990 Night of the 20th, a play, published by Or, Am, Tel Aviv
1989 Adam, a play, published by Or, Am, Tel Aviv
1987, The Jerusalem Syndrome, a play, published by Or, Am, Tel Aviv
1985 The Palestinian Girl, a play, published by Or, Am, Tel Aviv
1984 Ghetto, a play, published by Or, Am, Tel Aviv
1982 Soul of a Jew, a play, published by Or, Am, Tel Aviv
1976 Night of the Twentieth, a play, - published by Proza, Tel Aviv

Translations

The Night of the Twentieth

English and French: The Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature, Tel Aviv 1978
Spanish: Dept. de Educacion - Organizacion Sionista Mundial, Jerusalem 1977

Weininger's Night ( Soul of a Jew )

German: Translated by Ingrid Rencher, Edited by Paulus Manker, with essays by Joachim Riedl and Nike Wagner and lyrics by J. Amery, S. Freud, A. Gerber, A. Hitler, E. Lucka, K. Lueger, J. Moser, J. Le Rider, H. Rodlauer, F. Salten, A. Schopenhauer, A. Strindberg and S. branch. In Appendix: Unpublished texts by Otto Weininger, illustrations by Alfred Kubin, Europa Verlag, Vienna 1988
Spanish: Rio Piedras, Barcelona 1984
French: Cahiers Bernard Lazare, Paris 1991
Hungarian: Nagyvilág, Budapest 1988

Ghetto

German: Translated by Jürgen Landeck, in the establishment of Peter Zadek and Gottfried Greiffenhagen, Quadriga, Berlin 1984
English: Tel Aviv, The Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature, 1986
English: Nick Hern Books, London 1989
French: La Manufacture, Lyons 1986
Italian: plural, Naples 1988
Norwegian: Det Norske Teatret, Oslo 1985
Turkish: Can Yayinlari, Istanbul 1994

The Palestinian ( The Palestinian Girl)

German: Litag Theater Verlag, Bremen 1988
English: Loki Books, London

Solo

English and French: Cierec, Saint Etienne

Alma - A Show biz ans end

German: Translated and Edited by Paulus Manker, with historical photos from the estate of Alma Mahler -Werfel, Vienna 1998

Silence ( Silence ), Roman

German: Luchterhand, Munich 2001; Paperback: 2003
Hulandes: Byblos, Amsterdam 2002

Whiskey is also fine ( Whiskey 's Fine ), Roman

German: Luchterhand, Munich 2005

German: Translated by Sophie Waal and Ingrid Rencher, Litag Theater Verlag, Munich

Productions

Yehoshua Sobol often occurs as a director of his own plays in appearance, especially in his international success ghetto, which he directed several times himself, but also in plays by George Tabori and Shakespeare.

Ghetto. Theater Essen 1992
Adam (part of the ghetto trilogy), Mannheim, 1993
Shneider and Shuster, Theater Basel, 1994
Gene ( Summary of the ghetto trilogy), Weimar 1995
Ghetto, Washington DC, 1995, Wesleyan University Theatre November 2000, Haifa Municipal Theatre January 1998, Hartke Theatre, Dortmund 1993, Acting Food and Bremen 1992
Goldberg Variations ( George Tabori )
The Merchant Of Venice (Shakespeare ), Illinois Shakespeare Festival 2002
IWitness, Theater St. Gallen, 2004
Ghetto. Stadttheater Klagenfurt 2008

Awards

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